'Gaddafi comes back to haunt Sarkozy'

Headlines and cartoons are heavy on the image of Muammar Gaddafi's ghost returning to haunt Nicolas Sarkozy. After years of defending its reporting on alleged illicit Libyan funding of Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign, the investigative news website Mediapart is feeling vindicated now that authorities have taken decisive steps towards pursuing the case. Meanwhile, many former political colleagues have come out to support and defend Sarkozy.